My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThe willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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There’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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The good Lord made this world and everything that’s in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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